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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

PULLMAN ARMS INC.; GUNS and GEAR, LLC;

PAPER CITY FIREARMS, LLC; GRRR! GEAR,
INC.; and NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS
FOUNDATION, INC.,
Plaintiffs,

CIVIL ACTION NO.

4:16-cv-40136-TJH

v.
MAURA HEALEY, ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR
THE COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS,
Defendant.

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE PAGE LIMIT

Pursuant to Local Rule 7.1(b)(4), defendant Maura Healey, Attorney General of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, respectfully moves for leave to file a 40-page Memorandum in
Support of Her Motion to Dismiss, filed contemporaneously with this motion. As grounds for this
motion, the Attorney General states:
1.

The complaint in this case is 22 pages and contains 91 allegations. It asserts five

claims against the Attorney General that seek to challenge the Enforcement Notice her office
issued in July 2016 interpreting the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban, G.L. c. 140, 121,
131M.
2.

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) and (6), the Attorney General has filed a motion

to dismiss all of the plaintiffs claims. In particular, the Attorney General contends that the
plaintiffs three state-law claims are barred by the Eleventh Amendment to the United States
Constitution, and, in any event, fail on the merits; that the plaintiffs facial vagueness claim is not

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cognizable, and, in any event, fails on the merits; and that the plaintiffs Second Amendment claim
fails as a matter of law because it depends on an impossible reading of the state Assault Weapons
Ban and the Attorney Generals Enforcement Notice, and because the Enforcement Notice does
not implicate the Second Amendment.
3.

While the undersigned counsel made every effort to condense and streamline the

arguments in support of the motion to dismiss, we respectfully submit that a memorandum of 40

pages is necessary to fully set out the bases for dismissal. For example, the brief describes the
structure and legislative history of both the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban and the
predecessor Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Although lengthy, this discussion sets the necessary
context for the legal arguments that follow. Given the numerous issues to be addressed, the
Attorney General respectfully submits that her memorandum will assist the Court in evaluating
the merits of this important case.
For the foregoing reasons, the Attorney General requests that this Court allow her Motion
for Leave to Exceed the Page Limit.

Respectfully submitted,
MAURA HEALEY
ATTORNEY GENERAL

Date: November 22, 2016

/s/ Julia E. Kobick

William W. Porter, BBO #542207
Julia E. Kobick, BBO #680194
Thomas Bocian, BBO #678307
Assistant Attorneys General
Office of the Attorney General
One Ashburton Place, 20th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
(617) 963-2976
bill.porter@state.ma.us

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CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 7.1(a)(2)

I certify that, on November 21, 2016, I conferred with David Kerrigan, counsel for the
plaintiffs, and attempted in good faith to reach agreement on this motion, but was unable to reach
a resolution.
/s/ William W. Porter
William W. Porter
Assistant Attorney General

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that this document filed through the CM/ECF system will be sent electronically
to registered participants as identified on the Notice of Electronic Filing (NEF) and paper copies
will be sent to those indicated as non-registered participants on November 22, 2016.
/s/ Julia E. Kobick
Julia E. Kobick
Assistant Attorney General